The latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which tracks home sales in 20 metro areas, showed an improvement of 0.27 percent in home prices nationwide between August and September. In New York, prices declined 0.3 percent. And even that increase may be fleeting, according to one economist: "Some of the demand we're seeing for homes was from a push to get the transactions to close in anticipation of the tax credit expiring." So expect a long, cold winter. [Bloomberg; previously]
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